urn:taro:uh.sc.00065 Marcel Breuer Letter, 1971. September 13, 2006Encoded in XMetal 2 by Amelia Abreu TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981 Marcel Breuer Letter, 1971 Letter from Marcel Breuer, written from New York City to University of Houston Professor of Architecture Howard Barnstone. October 12, 1971. Regards letter from Barnstone asking for support in Hugo V. Neuhaus Jr.'s nomination to the AIA College of Fellows. 1 item 1969-001 Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries Biographical Note

Modernist architect and designer, born in Pécs, Hungary. He became director of the furniture department at the Weimar Bauhaus in 1924, and invented a series of furniture-designs using structural frames of bent-steel tubes finished in chrome. In 1928 he set up an architectural practice in Berlin. Came to United States in 1937 to teach at Harvard, where students included students Philip Johnson and Paul Rudolph. In 1946 he moved his practice to New York City. Major projects included the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris (1952-8), the lecture-hall, New York University, the IBM Research Centre, La Gaude, Var, France (1961 with Robert F. Gatje ) and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (with H. Smith, 1963-6).

Source:

"Breuer, Marcel Lajos" A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. James Stevens Curl. Oxford University Press 2006. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. University of Houston. 14 September 2006 http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main=t1.e673

For further information on Barnstone and Neuhaus:

Howard Barnstone Papers, Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library

Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "Barnstone, Howard" http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/BB/fbael.html (accessed September 13, 2006).

Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. " Neuhaus, Hugo Victor, Jr. (1915-1987).," http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/NN/fne43.html (accessed September 14, 2006)

 Scope and Contents

Letter from Marcel Breuer, written from New York City to University of Houston Professor of Architecture Howard Barnstone. October 12, 1971. Regards letter from Barnstone asking for support in Hugo V. Neuhaus Jr.'s nomination to the AIA College of Fellows.

Preferred Citation

Marcel Breuer Letter, Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries

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Amelia Abreu, 2006

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Gift of Howard Barnstone, April 1972

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 Subjects (Persons) Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981 Barnstone, Howard. Neuhaus, Hugo Victor, Jr. (1915-1987). Subjects (Organizations) Marcel Breuer and Associates Marcel Breuer Associates/Architects and Planners University of Houston. College of Architecture American Institute of Architects. College of Fellows. Subjects Architecture -- Texas -- Houston. Formats Correspondence Detailed Description of the Collection 1 Letter, 1971